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<p>gstpbutils — General Application and Plugin Utility Library</p>
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<h2>Synopsis</h2>
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#include <gst/pbutils/base-utils.h>
void <a href="gst-plugins-base-libs-gstpbutils.html#gst-pb-utils-init">gst_pb_utils_init</a> (void);
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libgstpbutils is a general utility library for plugins and applications,
available since gst-plugins-base 0.10.12. It currently provides the
following:
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human-readable description strings of codecs, elements, sources, decoders,
encoders, or sinks from decoder/encoder caps, element names, or protocol
names.
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support for applications to initiate installation of missing plugins (if
this is supported by the distribution or operating system used)
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API for GStreamer elements to create missing-plugin messages in order to
communicate to the application that a certain type of plugin is missing
(decoder, encoder, URI protocol source, URI protocol sink, named element)
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API for applications to recognise and handle missing-plugin messages
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<h3>Linking to this library</h3>
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You should obtain the required CFLAGS and LIBS using pkg-config on the
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 module. You will then also need to add
'-lgstpbutils-0.10' manually to your LIBS line.
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<h3>Library initialisation</h3>
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Before using any of its functions, applications and plugins must call
<a href="gst-plugins-base-libs-gstpbutils.html#gst-pb-utils-init"><code class="function">gst_pb_utils_init()</code></a> to initialise the library.
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<a name="gst-pb-utils-init"></a>gst_pb_utils_init ()</h3>
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Initialises the base utils support library. This function is not
thread-safe. Applications should call it after calling <code class="function">gst_init()</code>,
plugins should call it from their plugin_init function.
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This function may be called multiple times. It will do nothing if the
library has already been initialised.</p>
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<p class="since">Since 0.10.12
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